Although U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder initially indicated that prosecuting dispensaries would not be a priority, so long as they followed state and local laws, the Justice Department has aggressively gone after them.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday reiterated the Justice Department’s support for the Ogden memo, which in 2009 declared that the sale and use of medical marijuana in states where it’s legal are a low priority for federal prosecutors.rnrn